When Harry Potter takes up the post as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, he’s not expecting a calm, easy year as a teacher. After all, he knows that’s not the kind of year he’s bound to have if he will be working alongside Hermione Granger. But he knows he can’t keep running away from her; away from the woman that is both his weakness and his strength; his breath and his demise…because even if he can’t do anything about what happened, he knows it can’t be forgotten…

It all starts out with a meeting. Little do Harry and Hermione know what problems and dilemmas will surface along with their secret relationship. Hearts are shattered, prophecies are spoken, disappearances occur, plans are schemed, and discoveries beyond their understanding are made. Can their relationship withstand the perils it is subject to? Will their fate and worries stand in the way of true love? They can only hope not.

Their silly little worries—her tantalizing lips, his maddening behavior—drew them together in something much deeper, longer lasting…something that changed lives, righted wrongs, and opened new paths…something that could bring oil and vinegar together in a startling web of care and hope, of understanding and reasoning, recklessness and piercing emotions…

Banner removed by staff, all banners must be no larger than 700x110 pixels in size. Replacing this image without resizing will result in story removal She relaxed under his grip, and he let go of her, taking a step backwards. She looked up at him, into his cold gray eyes, and saw something there. Behind all the coldness, the malice, there was more. A softness uncharacteristic of him, hidden behind it all. The sight of it made her knees weak, and she desperately wanted to fall into his arms again, to fall into what was such a tormenting mystery to her...And that’s when she just couldn’t take

Nobody knew it at the time, but tonight, history was to be made. Tonight, an event that would change the course of the Wizarding World would take place, and numerous lives would take a turn for the better. It was slight irony that, at the cost of an innocent young boy’s happiness, he who had planned it all out would finally meet his demise....
This one-shot chronicles what happened on that night when The Dark Lord visited Godric's Hollow. Haven't you ever wondered?